If this is your first visit, be sure to
check out the FAQ by clicking the
link above. You may have to register
before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages,
select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below.

Welcome to Mac-Forums! Join us to comment and to customize your site experience! Members have access to different forum appearance options, and many more functions.

I'm not expert and I just got my first ever mac
but I do use some more specific design programs that are windows base. so long story short I use virtual machine from VMware Fusion with windows xp pro. in it, and it works fine and I like it better than dual boot, its faster to start up and you can have more than one operating system working at the same time, (with some memory sharing)
hope that helps
Jerry

I use XP with Parallels, and really like the convenience of having the 2 OSs running side by side, but I don't run the kind of programs you'll be using. BUT, I do know that XP runs faster in Boot Camp than it does in Parallels. Some say it runs at native speeds, others say it runs faster.

So if you need to run programs in Windows, I'd suggest you start out in Boot Camp and see if you like it there. Of course you can alway try a VM like Parallels and see how Windows works there for you and if you don't like it go back to Boot Camp...

I would say it would work fine with VMware Fusion or Parallels if you have plenty of RAM.

I would say they most probably wouldn't.

He's going to be doing game design, which is largely graphics intensive stuff. GPU acceleration is both virtualization packages is flakey at best, so whenever you want to test something you'd probably need to boot into windows.

To be honest you'll probably spend most of your time using your boot camp partition if you're doing that sort of work. So unless you're really set on the hardware and the ability to run OS X, you might be better off with a PC.

I have never used the virtualization, so I guess that could be true. Boot camp would be best to have the dedicated resources, but it probably would still work in either of the 2 mentioned programs, just might be slower.